Job Opportunity: Communications Officer for STORMLAMP project

An opportunity has arisen to join the STORMLAMP team as our Communications Officer.

The post holder will be expected to promote the research carried out within the STORMLAMP project, helping us to reach and engage with the general public, academic and maritime industry stakeholders. STORMLAMP is a research project that is characterising wave loading and structural performance of offshore Victorian lighthouses. It comprises of three academic partners (UCL, Plymouth University, University of Exeter), the General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK & Ireland, and multiple industry partners.

Department: UCL Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (CEGE)

Location: Bloomsbury UCL, London

Duration: Jan 2020 – 31 May 2020

Grade:   7, Scale point 29, £22.44 per hour (negotiable).

Part-time role: 4 hours per week (negotiable).      

Duties will include:

• designing and producing newsletters, web documents and other literature;
• maintaining an effective social media presence;
• keeping abreast of research and industrial activities for dissemination to relevant stakeholders across appropriate media platforms;
• organising a workshop for disseminating research findings to the general public, research and industry stakeholders.

Please view the attached pdf job description and person specification for further information. The ideal candidate will be a UCL employee or PhD student with an interest or background in comms, who is looking for an extra project.

If you wish to apply, please send your CV and a brief (one side of A4) description of why you are suited to this role, to CEGE-HR (cege-hr@ucl.ac.uk) by 5pm on Friday 6 Dec 2019. Interviews will take place between 9 and 17 December 2019.

Job Description and Person Specification: Download pdf

Contact Dr Athanasios Pappas (a.pappas@ucl.ac.uk) to discuss the job role further before applying.